Compare and Contrast by Jackson W.

Compare and Contrast Essay

The Outsiders and the book War comes to Willy Freeman are two completely different books, different plots, different characters, you name it they’re different, except one thing. Themes. Both books may be different but have similar themes. For example: Survival. Survival is one of the main themes for both The Outsiders and the book War comes to Willy Freeman. In this essay, we’ll be looking at the similarities between the two books theme wise.

First off, The Outsiders; The Outsiders is about a young child named Ponyboy whose parents have abandoned him and now he is alone only with the Greasers, who are cast outs, oddballs, a red shirt in 10 white shirts. Meanwhile, the Soc’s who the socials, rich are, live social lives. But everything changes when Ponyboy and his buddy Johnny are cornered by the Soc’s. And limits get pushed and a near death situation turns on the Soc’s when Johnny killed Bob, the leader of the Soc’s. Now they are on the run from the Law and the Avenging Soc’s.

Meanwhile, the book War comes to Willy Freeman is a whole other story (Literally). It is about a African family, who gets assaulted by the British during the Revolutionary War. Willy Freeman, the Daughter, is the only one who doesn’t get caught She watched her father die in battle when the British assaulted the Family and others too. Then when “Willy” returns, she finds her mother, kidnapped and taken to New York. Now Willy must dress herself as a boy and go to New York to find her mother.

Next, how do these books show the Theme survival in a similar way? First off, the first similarity is where both books have Violent Ways of survival. Like in The Outsiders Johnny killed that one guy, Bob, for the Survival of his best friend, the Main Character, Ponyboy. Also, in War Comes to Willy Freeman Willy goes to find her mother to survive, and in the process, the Death of her Father. So there is one similarity that has to do with Survival of both books The Outsiders and War Comes to Willy Freeman.

Differences are that War comes to Willy Freeman; survival in that book is way different than in The Outsiders. For example, in The Outsiders, survival is basically running from the cops, and from the Soc’s in that book, unlike War comes to Willy Freeman. Survival in War comes to Willy Freeman means finding a kidnapped mother in disguise as a young boy whose father has been killed by the British.

Themes Essay

The Outsiders “Themes” Essay

The Outsiders is a great book where Ponyboy (Aka the Narrator) who tells a story from his point of view about the War between two sides: The Soc’s (The Socials; Rich, live social lives) and the Greasers (Long slick hair, poor, non-social lives). The main plot of the story is that Ponyboy and his buddy Johnny are cornered by the Soc’s (You can find and read this in Chapter 4) and Bob (The leader of the Soc’s) orders his second hand man Randy, to give Ponyboy a “Bath”. Nearly drowning Ponyboy, Johnny couldn’t take it, he pushed the limit. He ran past everyone of the Greasers only to go for Bob, brings out his switch blade and kills bob. And now they are on the run from the Greasers and the Law fearing that they would get the Electric Chair.

Themes for this story, there are many but the main one just from the Plot, would be Survival Its obviously survival. How? Here is how. First off right out of the hat, the Plot. They are running from the Law. Plus they killed a Soc. The kill was for survival. Sometimes in life you do what it takes. Next are the Children in the church and the Fire. When the church bursts into flames Johnny and Ponyboy made the decision to save those children, there was no time to get help. They chose to do it for the children’s lives. They sacrificed their lives (Literally for Johnny {Spoiler}) for the children’s own survival.

Last but not least when the Soc’s cornered Ponyboy and Johnny, Ponyboy tried to stand up to the Soc’s for Johnny. He was the kind of guy who was afraid, a lost kid at a amusement park. He tried to have them back off so he and Johnny could escape. But of course that didn’t happen, but even if it did it would count as survival. You do what it takes in the world to survive. Kill, eat, drink, etc. This story clearly states that Survival is indeed one of the plotlines for The Outsiders

Point of View Piece

War Comes to Willy Freeman

War comes to Willy freeman, what is it about?

An African-American teenager's life dramatically changes in the late 1700s during the American Revolutionary War. One terrible day, Willy Freeman watches her father die in a battle while fighting on the American side, and when she returns home, her mother is missing. Dressed in an outfit that makes her look like a boy, she sets off on a journey towards New York City, because she believes that British soldiers may have taken her mother there.

Willy Freeman is the main character as most people know, and is the story’s point of view. The book is about Willy Freeman’s point of view of several events, and also from this perspective the events are described in a way that is very, realistic, or let’s say graphic, or literal. A way the main character’s point of view (Willy Freeman) that really influences the reader’s interpretation is how this point of view shows when for example when Willy’s father dies, she puts things down to detail, like if someone were to describe a certain event this is how she did it.

But you know sometimes the reader would have said it should’ve ended this way or this should end that way. For example like if it was from another person’s point of view; let’s say the Dad; the story would be a lot different because it is in his point of view, not Willy’s anymore. So like I said the Point of View Piece (War comes to Willy Freeman) you can only see one side of an event in the book you are forced to see this one side, unless of course you were to create your own Point of view.